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"It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me."
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"Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing."
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"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation."
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"The real propaganda is what-if we are genuinely a living member of a nation-we tell ourselves because we have hope, hope being a symbol of a nation's instinct of self-preservation. To remain blind to the unjustness of the cause of the individual "Germany," to recognise at every moment the justness of the cause of the individual "France," the surest way was not for a German to be without judgement, or for a Frenchman to possess it, it was, both for the one and for the other, to be possessed of patriotism."
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"But that's part of what makes America wonderful, is we always had this nagging dissatisfaction that spurs us on. That's how we ended up going west, that's how we--"I'm tired of all these people back east; if I go west, there's going to be my own land and I'm not going to have to put up with this nonsense, and I'm going to start my own thing, and I've got my homestead. ...It is true, though, that that restlessness and that dissatisfaction which has helped us go to the moon and create the Internet and build the Transcontinental Railroad and build our land-grant colleges, that those things, born of dissatisfaction, we can very rapidly then take for granted and not tend to and not defend, and not understand how precious these things are."
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"It is always a pride to die as an American."
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"Real patriotism embraces the wholly immovable belief that without freedom, the essence of the human soul and the life-breath of the human spirit is doomed to perish for lack of space and absence of light."
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"I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism."
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"Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized."
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"We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile."
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"The average American is nothing if not patriotic."
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"Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability."
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"Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty."
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"You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it."
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"Love other human beings as you would love yourself."
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"I've never heard of any president being so close to his people."
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"You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win."
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"I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party."
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"The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man."
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"Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children."
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"The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision."
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